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Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted
Staff Toil Round the Clock at
Russian Gunpoint
Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago,the Ukrainians keeping the
abandoned nuclear plant safe are iIl-fed, stressed and desperate for relief
Chernobyl Reactor No_
rises over the mostly
abandoned town of Pripyat in Ukraine. JOHN
WENDLE FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
By Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw
March 15, 2022 11:10 am ET
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It was 10 a.m , 16
into Russia'5 war on Ukraine, and
land-line phone rang inside the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: The site of the world'=
worst nuclear-power disaster had
become an impromptu prison, and an increasingly dangerous one:
The signalman on duty lifted the receiver and passed the call to
supervisor Valentin
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